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HSD Institute Camino School
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Human Systems
Dynamics

How do we use our strengths to build more resilient teaching and learning systems?

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Course Overview
The map of the year — the models, the rhythm, the twelve-session journey, and the four Adaptive Action Experiments.
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Foundations
Sessions 1–3
01
Why HSD? Our School as a Living System
Complex adaptive systems · the Learning Triangle · strengths mapping
02
Seeing Patterns & Introducing Adaptive Action
What? So What? Now What? · AAE #1 begins
03
Pattern Logic & the Inquiry Stance
Pattern vs. linear logic · standing in inquiry
Conditions — the CDE
Sessions 4–7
04
The CDE Model
Conditions that shape patterns · the CDE Profile
05
Containers
Who are we together? · too tight / too loose
06
Differences
What matters most? · kind vs. degree
07
Exchanges
How do we connect? · content, media, frequency
People
Sessions 8–9
08
Patterns of Social & Emotional Resilience
SEL through HSD · Life Skills as patterns
09
Generative Engagement
Shared identity, power, voice · the energy of difference
Sustaining
Sessions 10–12
10
Building Adaptive Capacity
See, understand, act · interdependent pairs
11
Simple Rules: Making Adaptation Stick
Drafting the school's own Simple Rules
12
Now What? For Me, For Us, For Our School
AAE sharing carousel · sustaining the loop

Adapted from the HSD-Camino Toolkit (Patterson & Holladay) and HSD Institute learning materials. © Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Used with permission. hsdinstitute.org